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(viii) Waste processing.

Dumping of radioactive waste

(m) Waste treatment and disposal

One problem waste handling and unemployment.

Fuel production and waste handling technologies have also been developed locally.

And where is this waste handled? Usually in poor communities.

We support the elaboration of an international convention on the safety of radioactive waste management, once the ongoing process of formulating waste management safety fundamentals has resulted in a broad international agreement.

Industrial waste is often discharged into Palestinian land without treatment.

And perhaps one day we'll be able to tackle the problem of solid plastic waste.

Of special concern is the transportation of nuclear waste materials, which we have consistently opposed.

(ii) Technologies for sewage and waste treatment and for heat generation from urban wastes

Attention was also given to dealing with radioactive waste, radiation safety and the safety of nuclear installations.

(d) Adoption of an EAU inter State agreement on the storage of nuclear wastes.

These include measures to prohibit military activities, nuclear explosions and the disposal of radioactive waste.

This is a nuclear waste storage and encapsulation facility at Hanford site in Washington State, where there are over 1,900 stainless steel capsules containing nuclear waste submerged in water.

Waste treatment facilities are not typically tourist attractions, but Ankara s novel integrated urban waste management system has rightly attracted global attention.

23. In late 1992, IAEA again approached the nuclear weapons States with a request for proposals for removal of the irradiated fuel assemblies, reprocessing and permanent storage of the resultant wastes.

In addition, there should be sustained efforts to combat a major residual problem of the nuclear industry the disposal of nuclear and radioactive wastes.

Nuclear power is saddled with three major unresolved risks plant safety, nuclear waste, and, most menacing of all, the risk of military proliferation.

There had been reports that nuclear waste had been buried in insecure containers in the Golan.

The following measures are therefore being promoted to improve waste management i) the Waste Treatment Law was amended in 1991 to encourage people to reduce and recycle waste, ii) treatment facilities are being constructed with the aim of reducing landfill volume, and iii) treatment plants are being converted to types that generate less methane.

We believe that highest standards in nuclear safety, radiation protection, and waste management in all areas of nuclear applications are essential for the continued development of peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

Although the disposal of radioactive waste is clearly a local matter, the extremely long periods during which some wastes remain active creates a common international interest that radioactive waste anywhere on the planet be responsibly handled.

Increasingly, our security is threatened by the enormous deposits of nuclear waste on land and at sea.

These include nuclear waste disposal, the end of the nuclear fuel cycle, legal responsibility for nuclear damage, and associated insurance of nuclear power plant operators.

An example of successful waste management is the reprocessing of PET bottles (made of polyethylene terephthalate) into polyester fibers.

When adjusting emissions from solid waste disposal sites or waste water treatment, the recovery of the methane needs to be considered.

When adjusting emissions from solid waste disposal sites or waste water treatment, the recovery of the methane needs to be considered.

Consistent with our belief in a nuclear free world, waste dumping in the Pacific Ocean is not to be encouraged.

We deeply appreciate the Agency apos s contributions in the promotion of international cooperation in the field of nuclear safety and radioactive waste management.

Through those practices, Israel is destroying the environment of the occupied Arab territories. Further, it is burying nuclear and toxic wastes from Israeli industrial sites.

Projections of the future contributions of nuclear energy are highly uncertain, due to the concerns that exist about safety, radioactive waste management, potential proliferation of nuclear weapons and vulnerability to terrorists.

To this end, Norway has proposed the establishment of an international action plan for nuclear waste management, matched by an international fund similar to the nuclear safety account in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Demonstration of methods of treating the organic portion of municipal solid waste in Caribbean small island developing States.

Of the 42 resolutions on disarmament issues adopted by the Assembly at its last session, 15 deal with various ways of controlling nuclear arms, the management of nuclear waste, the banning of nuclear tests and the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Ensuring the safety of nuclear installations, managing radioactive waste, promoting various applications of nuclear technology and providing technical assistance all these activities depend on the confidence that nuclear energy and technology are used exclusively for peaceful purposes.

Waste materials

Being located in the region that has been afflicted by terrorism, Uganda is concerned by the stockpiles of nuclear waste being dumped off the Indian Ocean coast of Somalia. The nuclear and toxic dump can very easily constitute an arsenal for the terrorists in their quest for weapons of mass destruction.

The IAEA has assisted countries in all aspects of the application of peaceful nuclear science and technology, from nuclear power planning and development and waste management to assistance in non nuclear power technologies.

Reduction of methane emissions (CH4) from energy production, energy transport, energy distribution and energy use from agriculture from waste treatment and from wastewater treatment,

The Nordic countries and Russia are planning an international conference on nuclear waste management, in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The nuclear industry s very existence is dependent on hidden public subsidies costs borne by society in the event of nuclear disaster, as well as the costs of the still unmanaged disposal of nuclear waste.

It further recognizes that the Antarctic Treaty provides for the demilitarization of the continent, the prohibition of nuclear explosions and the disposal of nuclear wastes, the freedom of scientific research and the free exchange of scientific information.

18. Finally, Papua New Guinea strongly endorsed the South Pacific Forum apos s decision to oppose the dumping of nuclear waste in the Pacific Ocean, the establishment of facilities for the storage or incineration of such waste, as well as transboundary movements of toxic waste and nuclear testing in the region.